Best Editorial Cartoons of the Year - Paperback

by Charles Brooks (Editor)

Relive the year's history-making events with Best Editorial Cartoons of the Year: 1986 Edition. Since 1973, this series has showcased the talents of leading editorial cartoonists form the United States and Canada. This year's volume presents more than 350 noteworthy cartoons from 133 cartoonists, including the top prize-winners of 1985.

Congressman Jack Kemp, a frequent target of editorial pens, contributed the forward for this year's edition. He notes that editorial cartooning is vital to a free press and in preserving history, commenting that no one has ever seen a cartoon poking fun at Mikhail Gorbachev in Pravda or Krokodil, and that fact speaks volumes about the Soviet system.

Best Editorial Cartoons of the Year is widely recognized as the definitive compendium of leading cartoonists' views of national and international issues. Acclaimed as a concise yet far-ranging pictorial history, Publishers Weekly calls it a great way to get the gut feeling of a year's history.

The 1986 edition continues the history of excellence established in previous volumes. This year the cartoonists focus their rapier wit on such topics as the Regan administration, international terrorism, crime, the AIDS scare, airline safety, and national defense issues such as Star Wars.

ABOUT THE EDITOR
Editor Charles Brooks is past president of the Association of American Editorial Cartoonists and for thirty-eight years was a cartoonist for the Birmingham News. He has been the recipient of thirteen Freedom Foundation Awards, a national VFW Award, two Vigilante Patriot Awards, and a Sigma Delta Chi Award for editorial cartooning.

Brooks' cartoons appear in more than eighty books, including textbooks on political science, economics, and history, as well as encyclopedias and yearbooks. His original cartoons are on display in many libraries' archives.

Back Jacket

THE REAGAN ADMINISTRATION, Reagan's comeback from cancer surgery, the AIDS scare, international crises, the earthquake in Mexico, the startling increase in airplane crashes, the Live Aid concerts -- these major issues of 1985 are explored in some 350 editorial cartoons by more than 130 of the nation's leading editorial cartoonists.

Published annually since 1973, this series presents a pictorial history of the year. In this newest volume, outstanding cartoonists express divergent views representing every part of the political spectrum. These humorous, shocking, delightful, and outrageous drawings stimulate a clearer understanding of the major issues and conflicts at hand. No political leader is spared as these cartoonists exploit their strengths, weaknesses, and personal foibles.

Author Biography

In addition to his lifetime of work as an editorial cartoonist, Charles Brooks has had another rewarding long-time career: that of editor of Pelican's Best Editorial Cartoons of the Year Series. This landmark series, begun in 1972, showcases the work of editorial cartoonists from the United States and Canada. Throughout his life, Brooks has not only seen history unfold before his eyes, but he also has recorded it for posterity in his cartoons. So, too, do the editorial cartoonists that he chooses to appear in each edition of Best Editorial Cartoons of the Year. The cartoons, inevitably more famous than the cartoonists themselves, become a part of the history that they capture. Charles Brooks is past president of the Association of American Editorial Cartoonists and was a cartoonist for the Birmingham (Ala.) News for thirty-eight years. He has been the recipient of thirteen Freedom Foundation awards, a national VFW award, two Vigilante Patriot awards, and a Sigma Delta Chi award for editorial cartooning. Brooks' cartoons appear in more than eighty books, including textbooks on political science, economics, and history, as well as encyclopedias and yearbooks. His original cartoons are on display in the archives of many libraries.